Faculty & Programs

Cutting-edge approach leveraged by Lehigh University catalysis researchers, detailed in Nature Communications, could pave the way for cleaner energy generation

Faculty member and four-time Lehigh alumna recognized by Lehigh's College of Education for her outstanding contributions to education and student engagement.

The annual Rossin College Awards ceremony was held on Monday, May 6, 2024, in the Iacocca Wood Dining Hall to celebrate the achievements and dedication of the College faculty and staff who support research and educational excellence across Lehigh's engineering community. Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering (ChBE) had two faculty award recipients this year from their department. 

The Center for Catastrophe Modeling and Resilience—an interdisciplinary team led by CEE professor Paolo Bocchini—is the first of three new centers aimed at achieving national and international prominence and doubling Lehigh's research over the next 10 years. Rossin College faculty members Brian Davison, Maryam Rahnemoonfar, and Y. C. Ethan Yang are among the collaborators. 

Imagine you’re deep in the backcountry on a hiking trip, and you fall and rip a deep gash in your lower leg. You’re a two-day walk away from proper treatment. After you stop the bleeding, your concern becomes keeping the wound clean.

Now, imagine you had just the thing in your first aid kit—a spray-on bandage embedded with a mild painkiller and a disinfectant. A bandage meant to deliver relief, and degrade within 48 hours, giving you time to make it to the hospital.

The waste generated by power generation utility companies could be a potential source of metals and minerals that are key components of modern electronics, batteries, vehicles, and the clean-energy industry as a whole.

Sensors enable us to monitor changes in systems of all kinds. 

The materials at the heart of those sensors, of course, ultimately determine their end-use application. Devices made of silicon, for example, enable ultrafast processing in computers and phones, but they aren’t pliable enough for use in physiological monitoring. 

They also require a lot of energy to produce.

When we think about drones, we tend to think about Amazon. But their potential is much greater, and arguably far more important, than dropping off a box of laundry pods by lunchtime (an idea that’s struggled to take off since Jeff Bezos floated it more than a decade ago).